Coasting shoe attachment.



PATBNTED DEC? 1, 1903.

Now 745.442.

R. W. INNES. CUASTING SHOE ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FIL'ED JUNE 20, 1902.1

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Patented December 1, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT W. INNES, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

COASTI'NG SHOE ATTAOHM ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 745,442, dated December1, 1903.

Application filed June 20, 1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT W. INNES, residing at No. 2552 Spauldingstreet, Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, haveinvented certain useful Improvements in Coasting Shoe Attachments; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a new and novel coasting shoe attachment.

The aim of my invention is to provide a simple attachment adapted to beremovably secured to a shoe and used by a boy or person coasting.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown in Figure 1 a side elevationof a shoe provided with my attachment. Fig. 2 shows a front view thereofin cross-section, while Fig. 3 shows the blank before the same is bentto form the attachment.

It is well known that boys and others in coasting upon small sledsusually steer the same with the shoe-toes. This is apt to wear out theshoes at the tips, and in order to provide a simple device adapted to beattached to any shoe and provided with a central rib, which willfacilitate the operation of steering the sled.

in carrying out theaim of my invention I use a blank B, preferably ofsheet metal,

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which is formed so as to naturally receive the toe of a shoe, as isdisclosed in Figs. 1 and 2. this blank or-pattern being so folded andcurved as to provide the central projecting ends 19, which form acentral rib secured by means of the rivets a, and this rib is used inguiding the sled, as it cuts into the ice or snow, and so forms apositive means of steering the sled.

This attachment is provided with the straps C, provided withthe buckleI), so that the same may be ad justably secured to the wearers shoe.

These shoe attachments may be made in various sizes.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by United States Letters Patent, is-

An attachment of the character described,

comprising a sheet-metal receptacle formed to receive the toe of a shoe,comprising two

